We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"AppDynamics is agent-based, so some customers are reluctant to install the agents in all their production environments. It would be helpful if they had an agentless version. It covers applications on the server, but the solution is weak on the network side. The agent is not deployed on the network components, so it cannot provide complete information about issues on the network layer."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, Chronosphere and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver).
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